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A bit weird that their big christmas giveaway is something they already gave away before, I noticed it's in my library for a while now.

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[–] rustydrd 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aight, I'll not do a whole new one for this...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not like Steam gives free stuff often. And they give really really old ones too.

[–] rustydrd 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, but digital ownership is a fickle thing that depends in large part on how much I trust the seller. Between a >50% discount on Steam and a free game on Epic, I would still choose Steam every time, because I would feel like I "own" that game more than I would on Epic (where I would still hesitate to buy anything more than the 2-3 free games that would interest me there).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And they give really really old ones too.

As a Patient Gamer I'll take it...

I heard they gave away a nice title called Half Life 2 not too long ago... Sadly I still haven't caught up with HL 1 :/

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

Still nice for people who missed it in the last giveaway. Go play the game...it's good.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you know what SCP is, this is based in a world of SCP. If you don't know what SCP is, good the device worked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Before or after the foundation decides to exterminate the entire human race?

[–] Voroxpete 5 points 1 month ago

Before. The after version is SCP: 5K, and it's very, very good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

It feels likes been given away like 5 times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

X-Files Ghostbuster Resident Evil – if that combination of words sells you on playing it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And with all of that they never repeated their GTA 5 giveaway.

[–] Console_Modder 19 points 1 month ago

Because script kiddies claimed thousands of copies of GTA 5, either for their own use or to sell to other people that are evading a ban for hacking

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After going to checkout and clicking purchase Epic is telling me that my account is not allowed to download any more free games for the next 24 hours. Does anybody know if I this is solvable without waiting 24 hours?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the app?

Does trying it through their web store directly resolve your issue?

(I had a similar issue, though not that exact one, that was preventing me from purchasing using their desktop client but the website seemed to not care.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I am doing it on the web, and it still doesnt work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I bought the ultimate edition of this game on sale for $15 like a year ago. This game is constantly on sale. This game is also really good and legitimately worth full price. For those of you bitching about epic, just go buy it from your preferred marketplace and shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was yesterday? I missed it driving

[–] RmDebArc_5 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Haha, looks safe